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High ranking boff's in a lower rank slot needs more flexibility
shadowwraith77
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It's a bit redundant to think that a commander slotted in an ensign slot should perform as poorly as an ensign.
To maybe add a slight flexibility for being higher rank and more experienced for say, they should be allowed to pick a skill from any of their rank skill sets just at a dumbed down level.
For example let's say you slot a commander science officer into an ensign science slot, than that commander should be able to pick a skill to be used from ensign-commander like viral matrix only it would be a weak version of VM1.
Or possibly remake all skills to be 1-4 versions allowing them to be used by any rank just becoming better versions of themselves as they progressively get higher in number.
I know people are going to say this will make for an OP ship build, and seeing how we are already OP to begin with it doesn't affect much in a sense, nor would this affect limitations on boff slots for say.
As it sits right now it makes a commander boff look dumber than an ensign since the widest array of skills are ensign-Lt.Cmndr.
To maybe add a slight flexibility for being higher rank and more experienced for say, they should be allowed to pick a skill from any of their rank skill sets just at a dumbed down level.
For example let's say you slot a commander science officer into an ensign science slot, than that commander should be able to pick a skill to be used from ensign-commander like viral matrix only it would be a weak version of VM1.
Or possibly remake all skills to be 1-4 versions allowing them to be used by any rank just becoming better versions of themselves as they progressively get higher in number.
I know people are going to say this will make for an OP ship build, and seeing how we are already OP to begin with it doesn't affect much in a sense, nor would this affect limitations on boff slots for say.
As it sits right now it makes a commander boff look dumber than an ensign since the widest array of skills are ensign-Lt.Cmndr.
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Ships have certain Boff seating for a reason,... An ensign level Boff slot, uses Ensign level powers,... period.
"There... are... four... lights!" ~Jean Luc Picard
it doesn't mater how smart or advanced you are ZX Spectrum will never be able to do what Intel core I7, if you get my drift.
Say, for example, you've got a Commander level GW 3 that does 1,500 dmg/sec. If you throw that guy into an Ensign slot and choose to use his GW 3, maybe it could only do 300 dmg/sec or something with a reduced Repel value, but you'd still have something.
There would be issues, though, since everyone and their mother could now run an Attack Pattern: Omega.
Maybe enable them to keep the ensign powers active for just a few more seconds?
If everyone could do it, why exactly would it result in issues?
it would render the movement debuff skills pretty useless, for PvP and PvE
Just like on the ground, bridge officers should be able to use all of the abilities available to them in space limited by their rank, not the rank of the console they are sitting at.
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HOWEVER!!!
The idea of allowing all boff powers to exist in all tiers (BO1 to BO4, APO1 to APO4, GW1 to GW4, EPtS1 to EPtS4, etc) to be a FANTASTIC idea! It would add a lot of flexibility to older ships as well make setups less cookie cutter.
They could easily make this ultra low level APO not have the movement debuff immunity.
would make it interesting to have SRF or CSV ens slotted.. would breathe new life into a certain Science ship...
This is the idea I would support.
"There... are... four... lights!" ~Jean Luc Picard
The game as broken as it is, is balanced around the idea of having certain powered abilities at certain ranks of Bridge Officer station.
It would probably require a massive overhaul to do either of the suggestions made by the OP and would undoubtedly lead to further power creep and simultaneously making certain ships and ship build ideas redundant at the same time.
Even a low level Viral Matrix, properly specced could have a lot of power in terms of raw disable effect and this would be available on every ship from the Miranda to Fleet Intrepid. With the fleet intrepid able to carry a large number of them, where most science builds are limited to 2 at most. This could be disastrous in both PvP and PvE when used in tandem with P2W consoles such as AMS which make high level science powers available to any ship.
Game balance being broken as it is, shouldn't really be used as an excuse to break it further.
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